Horse-tail holder



(No Model.)

R. G. SAYLE. HORSE TAIL HOLDER. No. 432,085. Patented July 15, 1890.

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ROBERT G. SAYLE, OF IIALES CORNERS, \VISOONSIN.

HORSE-TAIL HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,085, dated July 1 5, 1890.

Application filed March 17, 1890. Serial No. 344,266- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT G. SAYLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hales Corners, in the county of Milwaukee and State of lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Clasps for Horses Tails; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

My invention has relation to improvements in clasps or ies for horses tails; and it consists in the construction, novel combination, and adaptation of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of the main loop-wire. Fig. 2 is a similar view of one of the auxiliary wires. Fig. 3 is a View illustrative of the manner of connecting said wires. Fig. 4: is an exterior plan View of the blank from which one of the hinged locking-plates is formed. Fig. 5 is a perspective plan View of one of the lockingplates connected with a portion of one of the binding-wires, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the complete device.

In carrying out my invention I form the respective elasping-sections of spring-wire of a weight and resiliency suitable to the purpose for which myinvention is designed. The wire A is bent into a rectangular form, as illustrated, and its free ends are bent inward, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and brought adjacent to each other. Upon the ends of this main wire or section A, I place a metallic frictionsleeve a, which, while serving to protect the ends from frictional wear, facilitates the place ment thereof in the loop tongues or hooks of the adjustable locking-plates. The two auxiliary adjustable spring clasping branches B are respectively of a form as illustrated in Fig. 2, their respective ends being provided with j ournal-eyes b, which are journaled on the respective transverse portions of the main branch A, adjacent to the sides thereof.

The adjustable locking-plates O of my improved device are preferably constructed from a blank sheet of metal, as illustrated in Fig. 4, the same being provided with a reduced portion at one end, which, when bent up, forms the lower loop or hook for the reception of the sleeve-enveloped ends of the main branch, and the upper loops or hooks for the reception of said ends are struck up from the metal in line with the end loop, as better illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings. These adjusting or lockin g plates O, as better shown in Fig. 5, have one of their ends bent upon itself so as to form a hinge-barrel c, which receives and envelops the transverse portion of the adjustable spring branches and allows the adjusting-plate to depend, so as to readily receive the ends of the main branch.

In operation it will be seen that when the tail has been properly bunched and the main section A placed in the proper notchesof the adjusting plates the spring branches are bulged out and the device placed upon the horses tail, which is clasped between the main and auxiliary branches thereof; and it is also obvious that in the application of my device to the horses tail it may be effected by opening thebranches of clasp and after inclosing the bunched tail placing the branchesin the proper notch of the adj usting-plates, and thus properly clasp the tail.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. A horse-tail tie consisting of three loops hinged together and two locking-plates hinged to the outer ends of the outer loops, respect ively, the opposite ends of said plates terminatingin ahook, substantially as specified.

2. A horse-tail tie comprising a main wire looped in rectangular elongated form, a sleeve on the transverse ends thereof, two auxiliary Wires bent in elongated loop form with their free ends terminating in eyes journaled on the opposite ends of the main loop, and two adjustable locking-plates having a plurality of hooks and each hinged at one end onhone end of the auxiliary loops and their opposite hooked ends adapted to engage the opposite ends of the main loop, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT G. SAYLE.

\Vitnesses:

PHILLIPP J URY, GUSTAVE BEAUOHLE. 

